Subconscious Understanding Quotes

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully engaged in a great piece of literature, once you enter the rhythms of the language, which is a kind of music, meanings are being conveyed that you're not fully aware of. They enter into your subconscious.

When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end she is this person, she's different from she was in the beginning. I guess it's more a subconscious understanding of that arc.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.

Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface.

Once you share what you're communicating with your audience, then you can make more sense of it in a subconscious way.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There's a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives.

I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.

Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.

I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition. I think a lot of things in life are understood that way. But you internalize these things; they don't really pop out. Certain things are built inside - little areas of understanding. I feel that I live in darkness and confusion, and I'm trying, like we all are, to make some sort of sense of it.

I like being able to go to the cinema and sit and spend time observing something without thinking about plot or what one character is saying. I feel like I'm able to connect on a much more profound level.

Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.

Most Americans don't even understand what I'm saying in my records, but they pick up on the vibe, the vibration.

What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer but that the viewer knows, or suspects, really happened.

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.